{"id":59816,"date":"2023-11-13T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/13\/six-people-arrested-in-hubei-province-china-baby-trafficking-ring"},"modified":"2023-11-13T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:37:00","slug":"six-people-arrested-in-chinas-hubei-province-over-baby-trafficking-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59816","title":{"rendered":"Six people arrested in China\u2019s Hubei province over \u2018baby-trafficking ring\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower claims hospital director colluded with \u2018online intermediaries\u2019 to sell birth certificates for about \u00a310,750<\/p>\n<p>Six people have been arrested in central China\u2019s Hubei province over alleged involvement in a baby-trafficking ring linked to a hospital in one of the province\u2019s biggest cities.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations about Xiangyang Jianqiao hospital first came to light on 6 November via a Weibo user by the name of Shangguan Zhengyi, who describes himself as an \u201canti-trafficking volunteer\u201d. Shangguan posted a series of claims about the hospital\u2019s director, Ye Youzhi, whom he accused of colluding \u201cwith online intermediaries\u201d to sell birth certificates for 96,000 yuan (\u00a310,750).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/13\/six-people-arrested-in-hubei-province-china-baby-trafficking-ring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower claims hospital director colluded with \u2018online intermediaries\u2019 to sell birth certificates for about \u00a310,750Six people have been arrested in central China\u2019s Hubei province over alleged involvement in a baby-trafficking ring linked to a hos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,245,50,725,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-china","category-human-trafficking","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions\/59817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}